Julia at work asked me to take a photo of the fruit and vegetable box I get delivered every week by Abel & Cole. The contents vary each week.

I lurk on the fringes of the Claverton Energy Group, and there's a perennial complaint that we in the UK don't have access to enough data on electricity generation. I therefore support the REF in their call for Transparency in the UK Electricity Market. The market can't work properly without …

Dido remarks:

To be called one thing and christened another is actually very confusing and annoying. It's one of the most irritating things that my parents did to me....

My real name is Anthony (or Tony for short), but my family call me Andy, and always have done. I'm not …

One of my bets is that the heading of the ball will be banned in football. I sent some new evidence to Toby:

Toby, remember our heading a football bet?

http://blog.tlocke.org.uk/2007/07/ill-wager.html

New evidence coming in (I know this is American football, but …

I'm forever listening to Alphaville's Forever Young. It's a moving song, with an elegaic quality. One thing jars though in the lyrics. Look at this:

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be …

Before I started using Blogger, I used to have a blog with Yahoo! at http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/t.locke.

I moved to Blogger so that I could have my own domain name. I liked the old blog though. It had a cool background image of the shell …

Thanks to Julia at work for telling me about a study that shows that there are some benefits of growing ivy on the walls of building.

They found that ivy acted as a thermal blanket, warming up walls by an average of 15 per cent in cold weather and cooling …

Thank you to Glyn Moody for highlighting another example of the tragedy of the commons in his post: Greed vs. Survival: Which Prevails?. At national and EU level, we have a mechanism for avoiding tragedies of the commons. We can pass laws and regulate the commons. For example, in the …

I tweeted about Foursquare, and @icklemichael wrote:

@t_locke Do you ever worry that advertising your location might encourage burglers?

and @rdzien wrote:

t_locke check out: http://pleaserobme.com/

People do ask me if I'm worried about telling everyone where I am, and I give a few responses:

1. There are two …

Bill warned me that The Dark River wasn't as good as The Traveller, but I was pleasantly surprised by this, the second book in the Fourth Realm Trilogy by J12H. It carries on the exciting adventures of Gabriel and the Harlequins and Travellers.

Like many others, J12H classes privacy as …